Haflinger Slip On Clogs
Available Here for $165.99
The Atlantic published an article "Cool People Saved America’s Feet" in March of 2023, extolling the benefits of supportive INDOOR and outdoor footwear. While we instinctively put on supportive shoes when we leave the house, how about all that time spent in the house walking barefoot on hardwood floors? Fuzzy slippers are decadent, but they don’t do much in the way of supporting your skeletal system.
Since the investment in high quality house shoes is no pittance on the purse strings, it would be nice if these shoes could be comfortable, durable and fashionable, i.e. you can wear them around the town too. Luckily, orthopedic footwear has reached a fashion high-water mark, and the well-directed acquisition of a beautiful pair of house shoes means you can delight in being “with it” as well as comfortable within it.
Haflinger has been silently bringin’ it on the craftsmanship and design front with this model of house shoes for over a hundred years.
I am finally coming to the end with the pair of Haflingers we offered for sale at the Taylor Stitch store twelve years ago, and I just purchased a new pair after exhaustive color research. A company founded on German sensibility, a majority of Haflinger’s offerings are classic and understated. The Hardware Store of My Dreams has an insatiable sweet tooth for color and would proudly stock some of the harder-to-find colorways - like the olive felt with turquoise band.
The shoe itself is marvelously comfortable and the wool felt dries quickly and never holds any stink. If your bootsies start a schvitzin by wood stove, odor anxiety is a non-issue.
And, as compared to the many currently-trending orthopedic indoor sandal options that look like Moon Boots copulated with Adidas Slides while listening to a Yeezy album, these handsome and timeless shoes are made from natural, long-lasting materials; they are not a petroleum-based blob pressed out of an anonymous mold in China.
Yes, you may miss out on the experience of walking on one of those horrific, synthetic squishy matts people put under their dish drainers, but strutting around in time-tested alpine excellence isn't a terrible second option.